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[BigD145]

How so? I just found it fun. Key to remember though is avoid missions where you could lose a crewmember, hah.

But those are the missions where you could gain a crew member.

[Strange guy]

After 34 games with no victories, I just got my second one in a row using the federation cruiser I unlocked the previous game for the first time. I ended up with tons of scrap, but weaponry I wasn't really happy with. Should have spend some of that scrap on drone control or teleporter instead of saving it for weaponry, then again I had maxed power and still not enough for everything in sector 8. The weapons I had proved far better once I swapped out the pike beam for the breach bomb mk II when enemies with 4 shields started appearing, I had my starting burst laser mk II, the artillery beam and a halberd beam as well as that. In many ways that was a very lucky run, most scrap, found all those weapons even if I ddin't get a chance to buy better ones, found a pre-igniter and late game when I had plenty of scrap found a repair arm which let me have some repairs between the boss stages.

[MrWiggles]

How so? I just found it fun. Key to remember though is avoid missions where you could lose a crewmember, hah.

Well, having one crew member means that pretty much no one is going to be getting any skill XP.

The ship is a bit under power.

If your EMP gets dodged, you're kinda of fucked.
And anything with 2 shields, you can't take on.

[GlyphGryph]

Well, maybe not immediately, but that's true with a lot of ships. The key is to fix those flaws at the earliest opportunity.

[MrWiggles]

Well, yea but its a bit hard when you cant even get past sector 2.

[alway]

Tip: turning off your life support is not, in fact, the best strategy for dealing with intruders. Even with the engi med augment.

1 survivor >_<

[TempAcc]

B layout for the crystal ship is the best boarding thing ever. The crystal's special ability + the cloaking just makes boarding earlier a whole lot easier, thankfuly, since its basicaly the only thing you can do since you start without drones or weapons

[GlyphGryph]

Tip: turning off your life support is not, in fact, the best strategy for dealing with intruders. Even with the engi med augment.

1 survivor >_<

Of COURSE it is - but vent every room OTHER than the ones your guys are in, in addition, when you do it. Keep the air in that room as long as possible to give them the edge. (Turning off life support makes rooms vent faster, so it's a pretty standard anti-boarding tactic for me. Can kill... any number of boarders, really, before they even reach my guys)

B layout for the crystal ship is the best boarding thing ever. The crystal's special ability + the cloaking just makes boarding earlier a whole lot easier, thankfuly, since its basicaly the only thing you can do since you start without drones or weapons

It really is. The lockdown ability is incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, it has literally NO way to fight Zoltans or Autoships. :/

[10ebbor10]

Tip: turning off your life support is not, in fact, the best strategy for dealing with intruders. Even with the engi med augment.

1 survivor >_<

Of COURSE it is - but vent every room OTHER than the ones your guys are in, in addition, when you do it. Keep the air in that room as long as possible to give them the edge. (Turning off life support makes rooms vent faster, so it's a pretty standard anti-boarding tactic for me. Can kill... any number of boarders, really, before they even reach my guys)

B layout for the crystal ship is the best boarding thing ever. The crystal's special ability + the cloaking just makes boarding earlier a whole lot easier, thankfuly, since its basicaly the only thing you can do since you start without drones or weapons

It really is. The lockdown ability is incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, it has literally NO way to fight Zoltans or Autoships. :/

Boarding with crystals works on autoships, though you are going to lose one crewmember for each fight.

[GlyphGryph]

Works... for what, though? There's no crew to kill, and thus no way to achieve victory condition. It's fine once you get a weapon, but autoships are awfully common in sector one, making that difficult.

[Oliolli]

Destroying a system with boarding crews causes 1 damage to the hull.

[Thexor]

Not that I've tried it, but with an upgraded teleporter, could you beam two guys over, damage a subsystem, and then beam them back before they suffocate? If so, you could eventually win by destroying a subsystem, waiting for it to repair one step, and then destroying it again. If that one subsystem is weapons, you might even survive. 

[10ebbor10]

Not that I've tried it, but with an upgraded teleporter, could you beam two guys over, damage a subsystem, and then beam them back before they suffocate? If so, you could eventually win by destroying a subsystem, waiting for it to repair one step, and then destroying it again. If that one subsystem is weapons, you might even survive. 

Yes, it works with rockmen and a lvl 1 teleporter. (So it will also work with crystals). I think a lvl 2-3 tele can handle all but Zoltans.

Take care as you're going to be running quite low on health.

[Oliolli]

But in the end, someone has to stay to destroy the last hull point.

You know, we do have a human with no skills who picked up at the previous beacon on board...

[alway]

Tip: turning off your life support is not, in fact, the best strategy for dealing with intruders. Even with the engi med augment.

1 survivor >_<

Of COURSE it is - but vent every room OTHER than the ones your guys are in, in addition, when you do it. Keep the air in that room as long as possible to give them the edge. (Turning off life support makes rooms vent faster, so it's a pretty standard anti-boarding tactic for me. Can kill... any number of boarders, really, before they even reach my guys)

Well yes, but I wasn't doing the venting bit. Just turning off the life support.